Stephen Nowicki, Professor of Neurobiology and Psychology and Neuroscience and Faculty Network Member of Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and Bass Fellow of Biology

Contact Info:

Office Location:	116 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 684-6950, (919) 668-3420
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.biology.duke.edu/nowicki/

Education:

Ph.D.	Cornell University	1984
M.S.	Tufts University	1978
B.S.	Tufts University	1976

Specialties:

Organismal Biology and Behavior
Neuroscience
Evolution
Ecology and Population Biology

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Elizabeth Derryberry
• Irene Liu

Postdocs Mentored

• Kendra Sewall (2010 - 2012)
• Robert Lachlan (2007 - 2013)
• Rindy Anderson (2006 - present)
• Jonathan Prather (2003 - 2009)
• Jeremy Hyman (2002 - 2006)
• Christopher B Sturdy (2000 - 2002)
• Melissa Hughes (1994 - 1996)
• Mark Westneat (1991 - 1992)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. DuBois, AL; Nowicki, S; Peters, S; Rivera-Cáceres, KD; Searcy, WA (2018). Song is not a reliable signal of general cognitive ability in a songbird. Animal Behaviour, 137, S1-S25. [doi]  [abs]
2. Niederhauser, JM; DuBois, AL; Searcy, WA; Nowicki, S; Anderson, RC (2018). A test of the eavesdropping avoidance hypothesis as an explanation for the structure of low-amplitude aggressive signals in the song sparrow. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72(3). [doi]  [abs]
3. Anderson, RC; Searcy, WA; Peters, S; Hughes, M; DuBois, AL; Nowicki, S (2017). Song learning and cognitive ability are not consistently related in a songbird.. Animal Cognition, 20(2), 309-320. [doi]  [abs]
4. Anderson, R; Niederhauser, J; Dubois, A; Nowicki, S; Searcy, W (2017). Are Song Sparrow 'Soft Songs' Adapted for Short-range Communication?. Integrative and Comparative Biology (BioOne), 57, E192-E192.
5. Peters, S; Nowicki, S (2017). Overproduction and attrition: the fates of songs memorized during song learning in songbirds. Animal Behaviour, 124, 255-261. [doi]